Description:
A fusion of scholarship, literary writing, research, and creativity; these stories attack the problem of climate crisis through fiction.
Brief description: Lisa Moore is the author of the short story collections Something for Everyone, Open, and Degrees of Nakedness and the novels Alligator, Caught, February, and This Is How We Love, as well as the young adult novel Flannery. She has co-edited, along with Dede Crane, 24 True Stories About Birth by Canadian Authors, co-edited The Democracy Cookbook with Alex Marland, and co-edited, with Stephen Crocker, Muskrat Falls: How A Mega Dam Became a Predatory Formation. Lisa has also edited four anthologies of short fiction and is a co-librettist for the opera February, based on her novel by the same name. She teaches creative writing in the English Department at Memorial University of Newfoundland and Labrador.
Review Quotes:
"The writers manage to hone in on the people at the centre of the crisis, their complexity, complicity and relationships. Under the guidance of Moore and Wilson, We Were In It is a fascinating survey of the cli-fi imaginings of a diverse group of thinkers."